Cambridge

Thursday

Jul 30, 2009 at 8:35 PM

While I am the first to advocate for our guaranteed constitutionally protected rights to private property, freedom of speech and liberty, we could not exercise these rights without the protection, enforcement and sacrifice of our law enforcement officers. Thus, I believe LEOs should always be regarded with the utmost respect for providing the civic peace within which we can exercise our freedoms. Last year, I spent a week at Harvard Law School for some advanced negotiation training and Cambridge very much has a counter-culture, anti-authority edge as exhibited by many college towns. It is not surprising to me that this issue came to a head in a college town, but I am also encouraged that all those involved are well educated, articulate, intelligent and seemingly sincere men who seem to honestly be trying to move the debate from high rhetoric of class warfare to the realization that these complicated issues can only be resolved on an individual basis of mutual respect. Sherman Lee Criner Wilmington

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